[Gluster-users] What is glustershd ?

[Jeff Darcy]

On 06/12/2012 11:13 AM, Philippe Muller wrote:
> Reading again the glustershd-server.vol, I saw the seal-healing options, so I
> guess the glustershd means "Gluster self healing daemon" ?

Correct.

> But when/how is it used ?

It's started up automatically to do self-heals as they're needed.  It's
basically the same as "glusterfs" on a client (they're all the same executable
anyway) but loaded with some different translators/options.  The name is
different just so that it can be picked out of a crowd.